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The thing that strikes me the most about this plan is that even though the loop appears set up for entering and exiting loco first, it cant be done with the points you've put in- in fact anything coming from the stations are travelling on the wrong side once they enter the loop.

I am starting to build a new layout using Unitrack. I would like to maintain 33mm centres on crossovers but have heard that #4 points can be troublesome. If I exclusively use #6 points this forces 49.5 mm centres and makes life difficult on the nearby curve sections. The dealer says that the #4's r...

ok so not a circle but a series of arcs and straights thing is i had imagined (wrongly as it turns out) that working that out would lead me to the return curve- because the track center of the bendy toe must be half the spacing (otherwise two together toe to toe wont make a good crossing). I'm start...

you are correct and i am wrong! but my radius argument is better but your curve is the best- regard the two diagrams, my two long points fit exactly into 37 inch circle, the inner circle is your 34.5 inch circle- as you can see it overlaps but the other diagram shows how your 34.5 inch return curve ...

i get almost exactly ( i know , i know ) 34.5 inches constant radius in a 10 degree arc to give streamline centres from a code 55 large raidus point. this was done using 'cadrail' drawing a tangent arc, but i don't know how ( or even if ) it is possible to strike the arc from the the point so i pla...

i get almost exactly ( i know , i know ) 34.5 inches constant radius in a 10 degree arc to give streamline centres from a code 55 large raidus point. this was done using 'cadrail' drawing a tangent arc, but i don't know how ( or even if ) it is possible to strike the arc from the the point so i pla...

i absolutely agree with you, but still I'm keen to discover the rhyme, reason and relationship of the different track pieces. yes, it serves no practical purpose- other than to tax the mind but musing it did lead me to the interesting discovery that a curved point seems to fit one streamline spacing...

before I begin, I accept that this probably serves no useful purpose a peco medium radius code 55 point is supposed to have a radius of 18 inches, now, this is for the curved bit, and not an average of the point itself- from its heel to the toe that bends out. because i've been trying in xtrckd to f...

it really depends where the door is

if its not central then the wall the door is nearest is going to be shorter

poliss wrote:I have found that my short wheelbase locos stall on the 30 degree Tomix turnouts. I don't think they are made quite as well as Kato tunouts.

any feedback on the other points they do? the 30 degree points are a speciality item after all

good link there phonebook, i just read the blurb and as the link says it is not advertised appropriately for the tracks actual purpose. well i've been toying (no pun intended) with getting a load of tomix track somehow and using it for trainset like layouts- there's oodles of different pieces, with...

get some kato 20-045 converters and have a play, they should?? make connecting the two tracks easy. you may need a bit of 55 flexi between the two facing points to get the track centres alligned. kato N has 33mm centres ( or 50+ if you use the large radius points to form a crossover!! ) and peco 55...

i know i have a bee in my bonnet about the st7, but it is SUPPOSED to be setrack, and therefore work in the way peco say it should, and from their own publications, they believe it does!!!! but it doesnt, they should change the geometry immediately.

much like the difference between flexitrack and setrack, anyrail is brilliant for setrack, and the piece restriction keeps the budget down! xtrkd is for better for flexi and indeed needs a little more effort

with anyrail, you have to know the radius you want before you lay- it wont do the maths for you- and you have to know exactly where you want to put it too. you can use the freeform flexitrack tool, and you can make lots of pretty patterns that you wouldnt be able to make in real life with sections o...